Search results for "Sweet taste"

The risk of obesity is associated with fat and sweet liking

2015

Introduction: Fat, added sugar and sodium are important nutritional factors involved in the risk of obesity, although these components contribute to eating pleasure thanks to their sensory properties. Few cross-sectional studies have shown equivocal results about relationships between liking and weight status. The only one prospective study has shown an increase of weight in individuals who liked sweet taste and no significant relationships for fat liking. However, the tool that assesses liking is unreliable. Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the prospective association between liking for fat, sweet and salt and the onset of obesity in adults. Method / Design: Liking score…

Taste receptors in oral and extraoral tissues: role in nutrient and metabolic sensing

2014

Functional roles of the sweet taste receptor in oral and extraoral tissues

2014

International audience; Purpose of review: This review summarizes and discusses the current knowledge about the physiological roles of the sweet taste receptor in oral and extraoral tissues. Recent findings: The expression of a functional sweet taste receptor has been reported in numerous extragustatory tissues, including the gut, pancreas, bladder, brain and, more recently, bone and adipose tissues. In the gut, this receptor has been suggested to be involved in luminal glucose sensing, the release of some satiety hormones, the expression of glucose transporters, and the maintenance of glucose homeostasis. More recently, the sweet taste receptor was proposed to regulate adipogenesis and bon…

Nutrient sensing: What can we learn from different tastes about the nutrient contents in today's foods?

2019

Abstract Tastes are often described as having a nutrient-signaling function eliciting expectations about the food and its nutrient content. The objectives of this work was to investigate correlations between taste intensity and nutrient content, to evaluate the impact of competing tastes on these relationships, and to know if the content in certain nutrients could be inferred from a combination of tastes. The Food Taste Database (Martin et al., 2014) and a French Food Composition table (ANSES-Ciqual) were used to obtain a dataset combining sensory and nutritional information for 365 foods. Our results confirm the existence of several taste-nutrient relationships previously suggested by othe…

Sweet drink exposure and liking for sweet taste in school-age children

2015

Sweet drink exposure and liking for sweet taste in school-age children. 39. annual meeting of the british feeding and drinking group

Comparisons of individual bitterness perception and vegetable liking and consumption among Danish consumers:A pilot study for a cross-cultural sensor…

2012

In order to enhance the consumption of bitter and strong tasting vegetables such as cabbages and root vegetables, it is required to identify potential mediators of sociodemographic–diet relationships. In this context a consumer field studywas conducted in Denmark which comprised a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire, a bitter threshold value test kit with quinineand a preference test with two samples of carrots differing in the degree of bitterness. All tests were conducted outside the laboratory, and the subjects (n=116, aged 18 to 79) were recruited during two different events at two sites in April and June 2011.Data was subjected to multivariate data analysis in order to eluci…

Individual responses to repeated exposures of a novel vegetable in pre-school children

2013

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Expression and characterization of the human sweet taste receptor expressed in a mammalian inducible cell line

2018

International audience; Sweet taste perception is mediated by a heterodimeric receptor composed of the two distinct protein subunits, TAS1R2 and TAS1R3. TAS1R2 and TAS1R3 subunits are members of the small family of class C GPCRs. Class C GPCRs share a large N-terminal domain (NTD) linked to the heptahelical transmembrane domain by a cysteine-rich region. TAS1R2/TAS1R3 is the primary receptor for a diverse range of sweet compounds including natural sugars, sweet amino acids, artificial sweeteners and plant sweet-tasting proteins. In order to understand the molecular mechanisms that govern receptor – ligand interactions and the relative contribution of the two subunits to the detection of swe…